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so today is the 4th anniversary of this journal. this monumental event conincides with another less-significant event, my 25th birthday. that means i was celebrating my legal right to consume alcohol by starting a livejournal. i remember that night. eating dinner with my mom and sister, hanging out with patrick and paul, then romping through the woods behind patrick's condo until we were in the parking lot of homewood high school. it's good to see that i haven't lost that lame thing over the years. i've made a point of noting my journal's birthday in the past, so if you'd like to see for yourself, you're in luck:
2005
2004
2003
2002
so there it is, a brief history of the intertwined history of my birthday and this journal.
i've mentioned on may 3 before how i'm not a big birthday person that commands lots of attention, but the attention sure is nice when it comes from unexpected places in unexpected forms and is sincere. when it comes down to it, i love phone calls, i love emails, i love IMs, i love facebook messages, i love myspace messages, i love birthday cards, i love e-cards, i love random stop-bys, i love people driving to town just to see me. it's a nice feeling.
graduation is next saturday. after that, the plan is to drive to texas, houston in particular. then the plan is to fly down to south padre island for a couple of days before flying back to houston and driving home. in there somewhere there will be an astros game and maybe some decent beach time. with time and finances being the way they are, this will be a great vacation to commemorate being done. we'll have to make sure to get back to town for the strokes show at sloss. it seems like just yesterday they were playing at the 5 points music hall on the same night piebald was at the boiler room. i still think i made the right decision about which show to attend, but man piebald is good.
my OM517 and OM524 classes meet for the final time today. this truly is the beginning of the end of my school days. tomorrow will be the end of the road for MKT522 and LGS522. next week holds a take-home final, two sit-down finals and a big group paper. should be fun.
i have a job interview at southern company in downtown birmingham on monday for a position called "engineer/analyst" in their environmental strategy team. this is a position i'd really like to get, unlike many of the ones i interview for. i hope this won't lead to me being nervous. hopefully, it will lead to more excitement. any prayers, crossed fingers or shooting star wishes between now and monday would be greatly appreciated.
i thought about making this entry last night before i went to sleep when i had a lot more on my mind. i decided to wait and now i can't really think of anything else. maybe something will come to me shortly.
lately, i've read/been reading the following books:
sprawl by robert breugmann
everyday apocalypse by david dark
holding back the sea by christopher hallowell
how soccer explains the world by franklin foer
maybe someday i'll find a reason to read something other than non-fiction, but nobody likes a liar, so why read anything but truth?
i haven't rushed out to buy many cds lately. at coachella, i finally bought clap your hands say yeah, the editors and the magic numbers. built to spill's you in reverse came out a few weeks ago and the new pearl jam came out yesterday. hopefully the pearl jam won't be too political, because regardless of your political opinion, it sounds dumb in song. i heard clips of the new neil young yesterday and it sounded as lame as toby keith.
now that i've got coachella under my belt, my sister and i are scheming to attend lollapalooza in chicago in august. i might even try to make it to a day or two of bonnaroo, especially when radiohead is playing. i would quite proud of myself if i was able to be at coachella, bonnaroo and lollapalooza in one year. too bad there's not a furnace fest or krazy fest to throw in there.
i went to destin for spring break. i had never actually been on "spring break" in the traditional sense. it was a pretty good time, but nothing spectacular. i guess the dining was the best part, which i imagine is a different lasting impression than most coeds have after spring break.
i had planned to go up to nashville twice during april, but neither panned out. i miss nashville. i'd still be interested in a job up there, but that doesn't seem to be happening, at least not right now. some of my best friends are it's been a long time since i was able to just go up there and hang out for more than one evening. maybe i just miss the lexington.
i miss people in other places too. nyc, athens and even birmingham immediately come to mind.
so thus concludes the 2006 installment of my birthday journal entry. as my Indian colleagues in the OM department say, may there be many happy returns of the day.
2005
2004
2003
2002
so there it is, a brief history of the intertwined history of my birthday and this journal.
i've mentioned on may 3 before how i'm not a big birthday person that commands lots of attention, but the attention sure is nice when it comes from unexpected places in unexpected forms and is sincere. when it comes down to it, i love phone calls, i love emails, i love IMs, i love facebook messages, i love myspace messages, i love birthday cards, i love e-cards, i love random stop-bys, i love people driving to town just to see me. it's a nice feeling.
graduation is next saturday. after that, the plan is to drive to texas, houston in particular. then the plan is to fly down to south padre island for a couple of days before flying back to houston and driving home. in there somewhere there will be an astros game and maybe some decent beach time. with time and finances being the way they are, this will be a great vacation to commemorate being done. we'll have to make sure to get back to town for the strokes show at sloss. it seems like just yesterday they were playing at the 5 points music hall on the same night piebald was at the boiler room. i still think i made the right decision about which show to attend, but man piebald is good.
my OM517 and OM524 classes meet for the final time today. this truly is the beginning of the end of my school days. tomorrow will be the end of the road for MKT522 and LGS522. next week holds a take-home final, two sit-down finals and a big group paper. should be fun.
i have a job interview at southern company in downtown birmingham on monday for a position called "engineer/analyst" in their environmental strategy team. this is a position i'd really like to get, unlike many of the ones i interview for. i hope this won't lead to me being nervous. hopefully, it will lead to more excitement. any prayers, crossed fingers or shooting star wishes between now and monday would be greatly appreciated.
i thought about making this entry last night before i went to sleep when i had a lot more on my mind. i decided to wait and now i can't really think of anything else. maybe something will come to me shortly.
lately, i've read/been reading the following books:
sprawl by robert breugmann
everyday apocalypse by david dark
holding back the sea by christopher hallowell
how soccer explains the world by franklin foer
maybe someday i'll find a reason to read something other than non-fiction, but nobody likes a liar, so why read anything but truth?
i haven't rushed out to buy many cds lately. at coachella, i finally bought clap your hands say yeah, the editors and the magic numbers. built to spill's you in reverse came out a few weeks ago and the new pearl jam came out yesterday. hopefully the pearl jam won't be too political, because regardless of your political opinion, it sounds dumb in song. i heard clips of the new neil young yesterday and it sounded as lame as toby keith.
now that i've got coachella under my belt, my sister and i are scheming to attend lollapalooza in chicago in august. i might even try to make it to a day or two of bonnaroo, especially when radiohead is playing. i would quite proud of myself if i was able to be at coachella, bonnaroo and lollapalooza in one year. too bad there's not a furnace fest or krazy fest to throw in there.
i went to destin for spring break. i had never actually been on "spring break" in the traditional sense. it was a pretty good time, but nothing spectacular. i guess the dining was the best part, which i imagine is a different lasting impression than most coeds have after spring break.
i had planned to go up to nashville twice during april, but neither panned out. i miss nashville. i'd still be interested in a job up there, but that doesn't seem to be happening, at least not right now. some of my best friends are it's been a long time since i was able to just go up there and hang out for more than one evening. maybe i just miss the lexington.
i miss people in other places too. nyc, athens and even birmingham immediately come to mind.
so thus concludes the 2006 installment of my birthday journal entry. as my Indian colleagues in the OM department say, may there be many happy returns of the day.